Table 1
Earnings by self-employment status and difference in expected earnings

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Earnings by self-employment status and difference in expected earnings


Table summary
This table displays the results of earnings by self-employment status and difference in expected earnings immigrant parents and 1.5 generation, immigrant parents and second generation and canadian-born parents and third-and-higher generations, calculated using parents and children units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Immigrant parents and 1.5 generation Immigrant parents and second generation Canadian-born parents and third-and-higher generations
Parents Children Parents Children Parents Children
Fathers and sons  
Mean weekly earnings in 2005 dollars  
Self-employed 1,270 1,102 1,263 1,168 1,315 1,030
Paid workers 1,111 1,090 1,118 1,165 1,144 1,070
Median weekly earnings in 2005 dollars  
Self-employed 912 629 903 693 935 654
Paid workers 993 876 1,013 961 1,028 893
Mean log weekly earnings  
Self-employed 6.78 6.39 6.78 6.46 6.83 6.39
Paid workers 6.84 6.69 6.86 6.78 6.91 6.74
Diffference in expected earnings
between self-employment and paid employment, in log points		 -0.17 -0.43 -0.16 -0.43 -0.17 -0.42
Mothers and daughters  
Mean weekly earnings in 2005 dollars  
Self-employed 682 895 707 882 630 668
Paid workers 567 837 601 897 605 760
Median weekly earnings in 2005 dollars  
Self-employed 433 481 468 495 389 353
Paid workers 486 698 501 750 501 632
Mean log weekly earnings  
Self-employed 5.93 6.08 6.02 6.08 5.84 5.80
Paid workers 6.08 6.43 6.13 6.50 6.10 6.35
Difference in expected earnings
between self-employment and paid employment, in log points		 -0.19 -0.42 -0.12 -0.42 -0.30 -0.56
             
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, 1981 Canadian Census of Population and 2006 Canadian Census of Population.
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